Fraud hubs face final days


Confiscated gear: Journalists looking at equipment confiscated in a raid by Cambodian police at a scam centre in Phnom Penh. — AP

THE nation hopes to shut down all of the country’s notorious online scam centres by the end of next month, the head of the South-East Asian country’s effort to combat the cybercrime said.

Senior Minister Chhay Sinarith, in charge of the Commission for Combating Online Scams, said in an interview that the government, since July, had targeted 250 locations believed to be carrying out the lucrative criminal activity, and had shut down about 80%, or 200, of them.

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